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6 unusual facts about Karlskrona


2005–06 Swedish Figure Skating Championships

The 2005–2006 season Swedish Championships were held in Karlskrona from December 7 through December 14, 2005.

Fredrik Magnus Piper

He studied mathematics and hydraulics at Uppsala University between 1764 and 1766, after which he went on to specialise in engineering in a special school in Trollhättan and at the naval base in Karlskrona.

MS Princesa Marissa

Originally the Finnhansa sailed on the route Helsinki (Finland) — Nynäshamn (Sweden) — Karlskrona (Sweden) — Lübeck (Germany) — Slite (Sweden) — Helsinki carrying up to 1424 passengers, but after a few years the route was simplified into Helsinki — Nynäshamn — Travemünde.

MS Stena Alegra

MS Stena Alegra is a RO-RO freight ferry owned by Stena RORO and operated by Stena Line, she currently serves between Gdynia and Karlskrona.

In May 2013 Stena Line announced that they were going to purchase the Norman Trader for their Gdynia to Karlskrona route, she headed by tow to Gdynia where she was refited and renamed the Stena Alegra in June 2013, on the 8 July 2013 she started operating on the Gdynia to Karlskrona route.

RB 04

The missile has never seen combat; the closest thing it has come to being used in anger was during the "Whiskey on the Rocks" incident when in 1981 a soviet (NATO code Whiskey Class) submarine ran aground outside the naval station in Karlskrona.


Christina Rahm

In 1804–1809, she was a member in the travelling theatre of Carl Stenborg, and performed in Linköping, Karlskrona Kalmar and Gothenburg.

Clara Nordström

Born the daughter of a physician and a peasant woman in Karlskrona and brought up in Växjö (Sweden), she was bed-ridden owing to illness up to her twelfth year.

Hur svårt kan det va?

"Hur svårt kan det va?" is a song written by Johan Fransson, Tim Larsson and Tobias Lundgren, and originally performed by Linda Bengtzing at Melodifestivalen 2008 in the fourth semifinal in Karlskrona on 1 March 2008.

Stockholm-class corvette

In the early 1980s a series of submarine incidents occurred within Swedish territorial waters, the most famous of which was U 137 which ran aground outside Karlskrona 1981.


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